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Re: Signal is having technical difficulties

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Post by dt3ft »

dave_sid wrote: post #185
dt3ft wrote: post #126

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Signal is being used by at least 10 well-paid medical professionals (group chat) that I know of, and one of them proclaimed today that Signal is owned by Elon Musk (probably because he tweeted about it). I did not care to educate them. And this is in a first world country with a rather wealthy population. Why am I saying this? Users don't give a damn, they expect free things, and they expect things which work. They h…

Very good point. People will happily pay 50 pounds a month for an IPhone and thinking nothing of it. But then really struggle to pay a penny for an app that runs in that iPhone. There’s some funny psychology going on.

There is very little to no awareness of what it takes to create software. We, the developers who have released our work for free, have allowed this to happen. It feels like mobbing, heck, we keep reading about other devs mobbing others by opening GitHub issues and demanding new features or bugfixes for software they did not pay for. I really hope that we can do something about raising awareness.

Re: Signal is having technical difficulties

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Post by sneak »

roughly wrote: post #147
dt3ft wrote: post #126

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Signal is being used by at least 10 well-paid medical professionals (group chat) that I know of, and one of them proclaimed today that Signal is owned by Elon Musk (probably because he tweeted about it). I did not care to educate them. And this is in a first world country with a rather wealthy population. Why am I saying this? Users don't give a damn, they expect free things, and they expect things which work. They h…

This is all probably correct, and should change in the long term. In the short term, I hope you've donated to Signal, and it would also help if you'd dispel the misinformation when you hear it. The world would be better if the world were better, but until it is, would you mind helping out a bit?

Is Signal having a problem of not enough money? I'd heard rumors they'd burned through the $100mm USD donation already but didn't want to believe them.

Is there any indication that applying capital to the problems we're seeing will fix them?

I want to help, but only in a way that will be effective in improving the situation. If they already have enough money, giving them more will not. If they don't have enough money following a $100mm USD donation, it's possible that giving them more will not.

Re: Signal is having technical difficulties

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Post by zamadatix »

olah_1 wrote: post #96
zamadatix wrote: post #85

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Paying for something doesn't really tell you anything.

It tells you that there’s a sustainable business model. Less ambiguity often translates to more comfort.

Not really, ive paid plenty of subscriptions to services that later shuttered and not paid for plenty of things long kicking. And vice versa of course.

Ambiguity goes away by understanding the total finance model not by knowing you paid 5 bucks.

That being said I'd like to at least cover my cost to them to see it better grow. A payment isnt the same thing as that though it only tells you you at least paid a portion e.g. buying a smart tv doesnt mean you now know the tv cost less than that to make.

Re: Signal is having technical difficulties

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Post by Daniel_sk »

DyslexicAtheist wrote: post #145
KMag wrote: post #64

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I haven't moved any friends in the last week, but I've gotten lots of notifications in Signal of many friends joining this week. Hopefully it just requires some simple modifications of some parts of their infra that they didn't realize were scaling bottlenecks. Based on my friends, mostly foreigners and English-speaking locals here in Hong Kong, Signal has grown about 20% in the past week.

Signal grew 5x in one day[1]. A week before Musk amplified the WhatsApp story with his "Use Signal"[2] tweet. It then did the rounds on MSM. WhatsApp shoots itself in the foot (though IMO it's a blip in their stats). Parler (thankfully) has been kicked off AWS. All good news for alternative messaging technology. https://twitter.com/signalapp/status/1349577579091566592 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1347165127036…

Google Play has 10m+ and then 50m+ step. So if you have 40m users then you still are in the 10m+ bracket.

Re: Signal is having technical difficulties

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Post by roughly »

zamadatix wrote: post #177
roughly wrote: post #160

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Good news, then! They have a monthly recurring donation option.

So how much covers my use?

Hell if I know. Give what feels right to you - imagine the service going away tomorrow, and someone saying "If only you'd paid $X/mo, this wouldn't be happening!" What's the value of X where you'd regret not having done so?

Re: Signal is having technical difficulties

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Post by danbruder »

alan5 wrote: post #71

I just donated to Signal after seeing the error banner in the app. I realised I was more than happy to pay WhatsApp's yearly charge back in the pre-Facebook days (think it was 70p or so?). Figured I could give Signal a few quid every now and then, maybe keep a server up for a few seconds :) Donation link should anyone be interested: https://signal.org/donate/

Thanks for posting, I just donated too. Signal is doing important work and I hope they can continue under this new load :)

Re: Signal is having technical difficulties

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Post by aendruk »

philshem wrote: post #184
aendruk wrote: post #171

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I'd choose an annual recurring donation if the platform offered it.

The platform offers a recurring monthly donation. Divide by 12?

$1/mo is prevented by a hard minimum, and likely for good reason as the credit card processor imposes a flat base fee.

Re: Signal is having technical difficulties

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Post by senux »

aendruk wrote: post #171
alan5 wrote: post #71

I just donated to Signal after seeing the error banner in the app. I realised I was more than happy to pay WhatsApp's yearly charge back in the pre-Facebook days (think it was 70p or so?). Figured I could give Signal a few quid every now and then, maybe keep a server up for a few seconds :) Donation link should anyone be interested: https://signal.org/donate/

I'd choose an annual recurring donation if the platform offered it.

I don't know what options show up depending on the route you use to donate, but the link on the Android app [0] takes you to a page that does allow recurring contributions.

[0](https://signal.org/donate/)

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